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Others cited increases in serious crime in the area as a major problem. "It's not just more policemen--we have to know where they are," Miles Levine, manager of Rosenberg's Shoe Store, told the council. "The adage in Central Square is this: you can't find a cop when you need one," he added...
Suddenly the demonstrator lunges forward, boltcutter in both hands; "Create a diversion," someone has yelled, and he does, poking the tool through the fence, pretending to cut, trying to keep the cop on the spot. The trooper has something in his hands too--a four-foot wooden bat, which he swings with all his might at the cutter. Back and forth they go, five or six times, the protester poking and taunting, like a child at the zoo; the man in the cage white-hot with anger, swinging and screaming. Finally, he stops, and reaches to his side...
...result of a federal jury verdict, the network and two co-defendants must pay Writer Harlan Ellison $285,000 for plagiarism of a script about a robot police officer. After Ellison's proposal was rejected, ABC and Co-Defendant Paramount Pictures collaborated on a similar production called Future Cop. The feisty Ellison was aware of the risks of such a suit. "It's a company town," he says. "You blow the whistle and you don't work." Writers, some of whom complain that networks and producers constantly appropriate their ideas, applauded the outcome. Ellison already has made...
...Eastern League unless the Big Red comes up short somewhere along the line. With six games remaining, Cornell could conceivably lose a couple, especially since it has yet to face EIBL powers Navy and Princeton, not to mention the contest with the Crimson. If it does, Harvard can cop the title by winning its last three. If it doesn't, that...
...wouldn't even have the money to pay our fixed costs--the interest on our debt, our MBTA and MDC assessments, the pensions." If all went as the backers of the referendum envision it, there would not be the money in Cambridge "to employ a single fireman or cop," Sullivan says...